Hot Air Balloon Making Competition!

Make an original designed hot air balloon. It doesn’t have to fly, but it has to look FLY!!! You’ve seen the level of design concepts that we’ve posted…So don’t send in no booshit, booshit, booshit! To be eligible, you must send in a scale model of your design before November 24th, 2009. It has to be able to be sent to the office. That might be another contest in and of itself. After Thanksgiving, when all our guts will be looking like a profile of a balloon, we will judge.

Balloons will be judged on:

1. Design
2. Plausible Function
3. How friggin’ pretty they are!

Make us smile, and we’ll make you smile.

1st PRIZE: HOT AIR LEATHER JACKET| RETAILS FOR $480

2nd PRIZE: CHIEF AERONAUT WOOL JACKET| RETAILS FOR $168

3rd PRIZE: WAYPOINT PULLOVER | RETAILS FOR $96

All from Fall’s newest collection. This merchandise has hit our distribution centers and is ready to go! So… we got the goods… How about you?

Hot Air Balloon Festival | France

OJ Mayo x Hot Air

Hot Air & Moxsie

Karmaloop x Hot Air

New Hot Air gear is in stores now… Check out friends at Karmaloop for a look at some of this seasons stand out pieces!

Moxsie x Hot Air

Launching its business by featuring cutting edge designers with a unique voice, our newest online partner, MOXSIE, offers an incredible range of todays’ best in fashion… We’re flattered to be included in their shortlist of brands and look forward to our growth with the MOXSIE family!

Check out their amazing site by clicking on the moxsie image below: 

Hot Air x NBA Draft 2009 Feature

Hot Air has made it’s mark in the 2009 NBA draft… Number one pick, Blake Griffin, can be seen wearing our Expedition Long Sleeve button-up zip shirt in this Levis sponsored shoot. We wish the ’09 draft picks an outstanding season!

Thanks to DIME MAGAZINE for the stellar feature on Hot Air (Blake Griffin, Jordan Hill, and Austin Daye – shown below)! Magazine in newsstands + online now.

Future Forward

Visual Futurist extraordinaire Syd Mead has been paramount in influencing the Hot Air design team from inception… His accomplishments read like an earlier day century renaissance man (think: Verne, Tesla, da Vinci, Picasso), with innate abilities to see and think outside the box. Expressive realism, focused observation, and being able to dream out loud, shape his next century concepts.

Steph Jones in Hot Air

Boy in the Balloon

We at Hot Air are sending out our hopes that the 6 year old boy that was to be trapped in this balloon was not inside as it took flight. He was not found inside the balloon upon its landing. We hope he either jumped to his safety or had not entered the aircraft alone in prior to taking off. The family is being made out to be a ‘mad scientist’ family and there are talks of it being a hoax. Either way, we wish you well young Falcon.

Click here for the most updated news on the boy and the balloon.

And the boy is alive! Click here for more news.